| Regardless of how much "whole grain" they add to Chips Ahoy cookies, companies like Kraft cannot provide us with the kind of optimal nutrition found in fresh fruits and vegetables. No matter how hard they try to convince you otherwise, the food and beverage industries have only their own best interests at heart. The rest is just a bunch of nutriwash.
"Responsible Marketing" to Kids
The Lunchables Brigade is racing to the scene of a large party where routine lunch is on the menu.1
—"Advergame" for kids on Kraft Foods Web site must confess that I don't have children of my own. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I've observed these animals eating just about everything I put out there -- beans, pasta, crackers, nuts, seeds, crumbs, lots of fruits and vegetables -- but there's one thing they absolutely refuse to eat. I recently put out a bag of dried, textured vegetable protein (TVP) chunks made from soy. It turns out that none of the animals will touch this stuff. It's almost like they'd rather die of starvation than eat TVP.
This is very interesting, because animals will eat just about any kind of food you can imagine, and if the birds or rabbits don't eat it, the ants usually carry it away. |
Eric R. Braverman
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 For example, they could benefit from a vegetarian breakfast and lunch, with fruits as a main component, which would minimize the blocking of amino acid absorption and the conversion to dopamine. There are patients with Parkinson's disease who come into my office unable to walk whom we are able to restore to full health.
DISEASES OF ACETYLCHOLINE DEFICIENCY
Acetylcholine is a natural moisturizer that helps cells retain fluid and maintains the membrane coatings of cells. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Even without the flavors, this lip balm lacks sufficient UVA protection and is not recommended.
© Gende Sense ($2.19 for 0.15 ounce) is a very basic, but very good, lip balm containing mostly petrolatum (Vaseline) along with cocoa and shea butters. It is fragrance-free and less greasy than using plain Vaseline, not to mention being in portable stick form.
© Herbal Answer Stick SPF 15 ($1.89 for 0.15 ounce) lacks sufficient UVA-protecting ingredients, so this isn't the answer for dayrime sun protection. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Drink two quarts of liquid daily—water is best.
Also, exercise for at least 20 minutes most days of the week. Exercise stimulates intestinal contractions that promote bowel movements.
Warning: Sudden constipation or alternating bouts of diarrhea and constipation may be a sign of colon cancer. Call your doctor—you may need a colonoscopy to determine if cancer is present.
FATIGUE
It's normal to be exhausted after a hard day, but persistent fatigue is not normal, especially when it suddenly worsens. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 It will help break your addiction to to "hear" clearly what your body needs, a holistic doctor before eliminating any food
Recommended Food
Eat a simple, light diet, based on foods }hat don't promote mucus production: raw vegetables and fruits, seeds, whole grains^ lean poultry, and fresh fish.
Carotenoids are antioxidants that have natural antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits. They are found in dark-green leafy vegetables and deep-yellow and orange vegetables.
Studies show that children who eat fish more than once a week have one-third the risk of developing asthma. |
| If you truly need to lose weight, don't starve yourself; instead, restrict your consumption of fats and sugars, while eating lots of foods with high nutritional density, such as vegetables, fruits, soy products, and whole grains. For further weight-loss suggestions, see Obesity.
ž, Super Seven Prescriptions—Anemia
Super Prescription #1 Iron
Take 50 to 100 mg of a well-absorbed form of iron, such as iron citrate, gluconate, glycinate, or fumarate, one to two times daily. |
| When you're eating foods that are high in iron, have some citrus fruits alongside them or take supplemental vitamin C.
Cook your food in cast-iron pots and pans. The food will absorb some of the mineral from the cookware. This strategy is especially helpful for vegetarians, who have difficulty meeting iron requirements.
If you have a digestive disorder that prevents you from absorbing food properly, juice the vegetables that are suggested here and drink several glasses daily. |
| Green leafy vegetables (except for spinach—see the note about oxalic acid under Food to Avoid in this section), leeks, cashews, cherries, strawberries, dried fruits, figs, kelp, and eggs are all excellent sources as well. If you're a vegetarian and can't eat calf's liver, include one or two servings of green leafy vegetables at every meal.
Blackstrap molasses is also rich in iron, so take a spoonful of it every day. Blackstrap molasses can usually be found next to the pancake syrup at your grocery store. Make sure to read the label carefully, as you don't want molasses that's been sulfured. |
| Fresh fruits and vegetables are among the best sources of antioxidants, so have a couple of servings at every meal. For vitamin E, add wheat germ to salads, cereals, or juices. Nuts and seeds are other good sources of this vital nutrient.
The consumption of fish is very important. Salmon, halibut, cod sole, and others are healthful sources of DHA, an essential fatty acid involved in brain function and GPA, which reduces inflammation.
A deficiency of the B-complex vitamins can both cause the disease and imitate its symptoms. |
| Recommended Food
Base your diet on non-mucus-forming foods: whole grains (although gluten sensitivity is common), fresh vegetables and fruits, cold-pressed oils, and raw seeds and nuts. (Many people with environmental allergies also have reactions to nuts, so monitor your reactions carefully.)
To keep your immune system healthy, make sure to get enough lean protein. Seafood and tofu are good sources that don't encourage mucus production.
Drink six to eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day to thin mucus secretions.
Flaxseeds and flaxseed oil can reduce inflammation. |
Bryan Hanson, PhD
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 Proper nutrition, especially a generous intake of fruits and vegetables which are rich in antioxidants, is important. This is because an LDL particle contains vitamin E in addition to protein and lipids, and a variety of antioxidants can help regenerate the vitamin E after it has taken the initial damage from ROS.
We have now come full circle on the topic of antioxidants, ROS and chemical reactivity. We have seen that a variety of normal processes produce ROS. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 When you eat grains, try to eat only whole grains. Be sure to read labels to confirm that foods are actually whole grain. žUse all-bran cereals for breakfast or mixed with plain yogurt as a snack. Add all-bran cereals to other cereals and to other foods whenever possible. žBoiled whole grains are best. Brown rice, oatmeal, quinoa, couscous, whole barley, barley grits, and barley flakes are good examples. There are many creative ways to prepare boiled grains. žTry to use legumes as often as possible. Take the time to learn the many ways to use these remarkable foods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Real brain medicine includes sunshine (which actually enhances brain chemistry), exercise, fish oil supplements, omega-3 oils and nutritionally dense fruits like blueberries, goji berries and pomegranates. Real brain medicine comes from nature, not drug companies, and it includes things like bilberry, camu camu berries and astaxanthin.
Psychiatrists don't have a clue about real brain medicine. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Sri Yukteswar notes:
Various grains, fruits, roots, and for beverages, milk and pure water openly exposed to air and sun are decidedly the best natural food for man. Other foods are unnatural to man. Mixed with the blood, they accumulate in the excretory and other organs not properly adapted to them. When they cannot find their way out, they subside in the tissue crevices by the law of gravitation, and, being fermented, produce diseases, mental and physical, and ultimately lead to premature death."6
Animals may be our friends, but they aren't if we eat them. |
Jack Challem
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 Enjoy these breakfasts with a side of nonstarchy fruits, such as berries or melon.
Simple, Fast Mini-Omelette (Serves i)
1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil 1-2 tablespoons shredded (not
1 egg, beaten grated) Romano, Asagio, or
Mexican-style cheese
Heat the olive oil in a small nonstick skillet. Pour in the beaten egg, allowing it to form a small circle (about 4 inches in diameter). When the egg sets, in 1 to 2 minutes, use a spatula to flip it over. Sprinkle on the grated cheese and then fold the egg over. |
| Carotenoids
Carotenoids are a family of fat-soluble pigments that add color to vegetables and fruits. As antioxidants they protect plants from free radicals, which are generated when ultraviolet rays (in sunlight) strike the plants. When we consume plants as part of our diet, we acquire many of the antioxidant benefits of carotenoids.
In addition, carotenoids influence the expression of some genes in plants and appear to influence the behavior of some genes in people. Carotenoids also play key roles in what scientists call "gap junction communication. |
| The diet could be described as high in protein, relatively low in saturated fat, and high in nonstarchy (low-carbohydrate) vegetables and fruits. Hunter-gatherers also had to be physically active to obtain food, which stimulated genes to increase the number of muscle cells and the number of mitochondria within muscle cells. Under these circumstances obesity was rare, if it occurred at all.
Today many people still forage, but they do so by choosing highly refined and processed items from the menus of McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell, and other fast-food restaurants. |
| Guideline 5: Eat a varied selection of nonstarchy fruits. Guideline 6: Consume only healthy oils and fats. Guideline 7: Season your foods with herbs and spices. Guideline 8: Drink water and teas.
Guideline 9: Eat organically produced foods whenever possible.
Guideline 10: Restrict or avoid refined carbohydrates and sugars, and limit your intake of all processed carbohydrates.
Guideline 11: Minimize your consumption of highly refined cooking oils.
Guideline 12: Avoid all foods with partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and trans fats. |
| How to Take Carotenoid Supplements
The best source of carotenoids is a diet rich in fruits and colorful, non-starchy vegetables. If you opt for supplements, it is important to obtain a combination of beta-carotene, lycopene, and lutein. Natural beta-carotene (from algae) is superior to the synthetic form. Natural tomato-derived lycopene contains related carotenoids that are likely of value, but synthetic lycopene may be an alternative for people with tomato or nightshade-plant sensitivities. Lutein is extracted from marigold petals and is sold as pure (or "free") lutein and as lutein esters. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 What we today call "fruits" or "vegetables" are in fact the result of a process of natural selection which took place over a period of some 15 million years, during which human ancestors had to constantly adapt to changes in their environment and become aware of new sources of food that could give them an advantage for survival. |
| Significant quantities of some of these molecules are present in fruits and vegetables.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food! Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.)
CHAPTER 4
The Prevention of Cancer Through Diet
The high proportion of cancers that can be attributed to the nature of Western diet is, as we have seen, a sign of the decline in the eating habits of a society that has lost contact with the very idea of diet and perceives the act of feeding itself only as a necessary replenishing of energy without any concern for its impact on health. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 EFFECTS
The parascorbic acid is weakly laxative and irritating to the mucous membrane. Ascorbic acid is a vitamin C supplement. indications and usage
Unproven uses: Mountain Ash is used in folk medicine for kidney diseases, diabetes, rheumatism, disorders of uric acid metabolism, for dissolution of uric acid deposits, menstruation disturbances, the alkalization of the blood, to improve the metabolism, and for vitamin C deficiency. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I say, for a couple of hundred thousand dollars you can buy a lot of fruits and vegetables, you know what I mean? You can load up on all the organic foods in the world with that kind of a bankroll. Then people say, "Well, my insurance is paying for my health care costs."
Ben: You're still paying for the insurance.
Mike: Exactly. Who's paying for the insurance? I mean, if you're going to make an argument like that, you're a fool. "I'm going to be sick because insurance covers that?" What kind of an idiot thinks that? But it's true; people do. I say that being healthy is very inexpensive. |
Bryan Hanson, PhD
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| Just about all fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants—that old saying about an apple a day keeping the doctor away is probably truer than anyone realized. The list in Exhibit 5.1 gives some examples of foods that have potent antioxidant properties.33
Many people will be heartened to find red wine and dark chocolate on this list. As it turns out, red wine consumption was an important clue about the role of antioxidants in cardiovascular disease, which added greatly to our understanding of this disease. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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| Attempting to describe the health-enhancing properties of fruits and vegetables in terms of a single phytochemical compound is not only reductive, but illogical. Broccoli cannot be reduced to its sulforaphane content, any more than we can consider that the health benefits of raspberries are due only to the presence of ellagic acid. Plants have developed at least twenty thousand of these compounds to defend themselves and maintain good health; it is certain that every one of them has some role to play in preserving plant cell equilibrium. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| Foods can be classified into four categories according to their cell renewal and regenerating capabilities: biogenic (raw sprouted nuts, seeds, grasses, and grains), which is cell regenerative; bioactive (raw fruits and vegetables), which maintains cell energy at a high level; biostatic (cooked, but organic), which creates a slow depletion of cell energy; and bioacidic (processed and adulterated), which is cell degenerative.
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Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 Preparation: Boil 10 fruits in 11 of water for 30 minutes. Wash Hair with cold wash, once a day in the mornings for 3 days. Alternatively, apply once a day until Wound heals. Amount applied depends on the size of the Wound. Usos: Matar piojos, Heridas - Uses: Killing lice, Wounds
Tara, Talla, Chanchalagua
Caesalpinia spinosa (Molina) Kuntze
Familia: FABACEAE - Family: FABACEAE
Partes usadas: Vainas enteras, frescas o secas - Plant parts used:
Seed pods, fresh or dried
Administracion: 1. Oral; 2. Topica - Administration: 1. Oral; 2. Topical
Preparacion: 1. |
| Bad Air / Mai Aire, Colds
Zapote
Capparis scabrida Kunth
Familia: CAPPARIDACEAE - Family: CAPPARIDACEAE
Partes usadas: Frutas, frescas - Plant parts used: fruits, fresh
Administration: Oral - Administration: Oral
Preparacion: Moler las Frutas yjuntar el extracto. Tomar templa-do, 1 vaso al dia por 4 dias. Tambien se puede extraer 1 goma del tronco del arbol. - Preparation: Blend Fruit and collect extract. Drink unheated, 1 glass a day for 4 days. Also used as glue extracted from the trunk of the tree. |
| Hojas, frescas - Plant parts used: 1. fruits, fresh; 2. Leaves, fresh
Administration: 1. Oral; 2. Topica - Administration: 1. Oral 2. Topical
Preparation: 1. Pelar y extraer las Frutas. Tomar el extracto, 1 vaso al dia o como se necesita. 2. Cortar la hoja horizontalmente y hervir cada mitad en 31 de agua por 20 minutos y filtrar. Lavar el Pelo con la mezcla y frotar la cabeza como champu. Bafio: Una vez al dia por 2 dias. Repetir una vez mas para un total de 4 banos. - Preparation: 1. Peel and extract Fruit. Drink the extract, 1 glass a day or as needed. 2. Cut a leaf in half (horizontally). |
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